I suppose I shall concede...

You win this time, morgan... but just you wait and see if next time I don't swear off of blogging all together...


Yes... So the lack of blog posts has been the result of a lot of things...

As a friend recently pointed out, November appears to have come early...

November is my least favourite month of the year because, for whatever reason I tend to reflect on how meaningless and inconsequential I, as an individual, perceive myself some days.


You know those days when you have absolutely no responsability. The days where everything that should be done, or can be done, do not necessarily need to be done. I mean, it would be great if they did get done, but you're life isn't going to end if you don't do them...

Well... this may come as a surprise to everyone. But I am inclined to have more than a few of those days. And, to make a problem where there shouldn't be one, I often take the opertunity to sit on my ass and not do a thing...

All day...

I'll close my room door, set my phone to silent and sleep/read/play video games all day...

And then I hate myself. So many things I could have accomplished, and I didn't do a single one.


Not to mention the friends who I ignore (who usually make a note of my lack of socialization with our next encounter)... I swear it's a miracle people still know I exist when i go on weeks long non-socialization spree's...


but yes...

My life hasn't been entirely self loathing since my last post...

We had thanksgiving dinner at our place for the roomies and a few people that didn't make it home for turkey day. Food was provided and prepared by the housemates (with donations from the attendees as well)...

It was a while ago, so I hope I can remember properly... but heres a breakdown...

Salad as prepared by Chelsee (she has a tendancy to burn water... so we tried not to let her near the oven)... basic and fabulous... salads can be terrible (ask anyone who has eaten at CUCA) and happily, these salades were not...

Wine as supplied by Evan (and I think someone else... Steph perhaps?)... Something about dead cats, and funky bottles... I can never remember...

Candied yams... everyone pause in rememberance of the candied yams... *pause*....
:-D' <- that's a drooling face btw
They were prepared by Stephy... I could have eaten them three meals a day for a week...

Turkey as prepared by Amber... It was moist, it was tasty, it was HUGE! Everything a turkey should be! (and it was her first time to boot)

And finally Pommegranate and Starfruit over anglefoodcake with cointreaux whip... as prepared by me... Pretentious much? Who would have thought... I thought it looked a lot prettier than it tasted, but most people seemed to clear their plates. So if it tasted like ass to them, and they ate it anyways, jokes on them cuz my feelings wouldn't have been hurt
=P
Just kidding... I would have been devestated, and everyone knows it.


Good times and good company were had by all...

And the best part was ignoring the giant burn marks in the carpet (because I dont really spend a lot of time in the living room upstairs, so everytime I do I see the little reminder of FF'06)... Well... the food was the best part... but the carpet was a close second...

yes...

So another hugely social event was the progressive supper/postcard competition. We started off with spanikopita at the (former) klein house, followed by ceasar salad at the convent, which was then followed by mexican casserole (or whatever it would be called) at the nudist colony, and then we retreated to the (red light) district (aka my house) for dessert...

Why does everything social have to involve food?

Anyways...

The results to the postcard competition were close, and I must say, Jenn had a deserving win... frick that thing was ugly... Although I must say, my aerial of edmontons west end (including the worlds largest temple to cosumerism) should have done better than second runner up (although the tie is a wicked cool prize)...

Work has been going pretty weekly the last month... a lot of rainy days has lead to really weak paycheques... which is lame... especially since the less money I have, the longer my tattoo will take to finish... *sigh*

The mood at work is really cool though... Lets go through a normal day...

Wake up ten minutes before work, look outside to see frost on the ground. Start getting dressed... Show up to work exactly on time to find everyone sitting around (because we'll kill the grass if we're on it while it's frozen) Sit down, read newspaper... finish reading newspaper... switch to tabloid newspaper... get frustrated with the style of writing (it's reads like the script for a jerry springer episode)... get frustrated at stupid paper... switch to comics... Look outside... still frosty... Play cribbage... look outside... frost looks like it's gone... start heading outside... start driving to task, notice frost still there, just hard to see from inside... go back inside.. play more cribbage... nap... start reading tabloid paper again... notice frost is actually gone... go to task... get frustrated because it's cold and starting to rain... ignore rain for 20 minutes... get called inside due to rain... sit around doing nothing for 45 minutes... get sent home and get paid for 5 hours of "work"...

And my boss told me that here is nothing I could do that would get me yelled at... I on;t want to believe him (and I actually don;t really)... but it's nice to know that he think's he's realy laid back...

The hockey season is up and going again... So I have to pretend at work that I enjoy sports... I have a clever ploy... I flip to the sports section of the paper, and make it look like I'm reading... when in fact I am really just counting to 80...

yeah.. so that's me...

My life really isboring, I swear I'm not making it up... Thanksgiving and the progressive supper were just accidents...

yes...

My Back: Part the First

My back is scabby and gross right now...
and itchy... oh so itchy...
So it's not really the best time to be taking (and posting) photos of it's current state...

But I did say I would post pics, so here goes nothing...


This is me... leaning forward...

Me leaning forward with roommate...

Brent Working hard

Brent Admiring his work

And finally, everything that had been completed when my roomies came to visit...

More was done (about 2 hours) but due to the amount of bleeding I was doing we decided to stop... All the outlines are done, so the next time I post pictures, it will be a complete tattoo in shape... just not in colour..

The plan is to do the colouring over a few short visits (so that we don't risk the heavy bleeding again)...

either way, it's very exciting...

Uh huh..

Pics are comming when I get the motivation to upload them... It's exciting (it looked so much smaller on paper)


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Finally

Todays the big day!!! Just over an hour!!! I'm so excited I feel vomitous!

Pics to follow...